How to access attached screen after connection dropped

Here’s the situation, you are using bash’s Screen command because you don’t want your flakey internet connection to affect whatever you are working on, and sure enough, the connection drops. Sometimes, when you try to re-attach to this screen session you are told that the screen session is still attached…
~$ screen -r '1234.somescreensession'
There is a screen on:
1234.somescreensession (Attached)
There is no screen to be resumed matching 1234.somescreensession.